This Summer Program consisted of two parts: a tutorial part (first 2 weeks) and
a workshop part (last 2 weeks).

Tutorial Part: Open to graduate students that have passed their
qualifying exams, as well as post-docs.

The purpose of the tutorial part was to familiarize participants with the tools of geochemistry, geodynamics, mineral physics and seismology that can be used to
enravel the properties of the Earth's interior, with a focus on the general
theme of the Summer Program.

Graduate students that had already passed their qualifying exams, as well
as post-doc's were invited to apply to this part of the Summer
Program.

The workshop part was open to senior and junior scientists, as well as ~10 graduate
students/post-docs. Unlike in most workshops, the number of talks was limited. There
was a series of review talks in the mornings of the first three days - but the
rest of the time was left unstructured by design.
It featured a limited number of talks :some introductory
ones on the 1st 3 days, progress reports from subgroups subsequently, leaving
lots of time for discussion/work. The participants formed several interdisciplinary groups of
4-6 participants. The primary goal was to brainstorm on novel ways to advance the science on a set of interdisciplinary topics and initiate research in that direction.
A series of original papers as well as proposals to CSEDI were outcomes of these activities.
List of topics that served as initial focus for the workshop: